Every week about 50 New Yorker cartoonists each submit ten ideas, yielding 500 cartoons for only 20 spots in the magazine. Arguably, then, the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world create hundreds of cartoons a week that never see the light of day. Sam Gross, for example, has had more than 12,000 rejected cartoons since 1962 (he knows—he's numbered them). So Matthew Diffee, another New Yorker heavy hitter, polled his fellow cartoonists for their favorite rejects. The result is this collection of cartoons, handpicked by Diffee ("the cream of the crap, you might say"), that were just a little bit too risqué, silly, or weird for The New Yorker, but absolutely hilarious for anyone with a slightly sick sense of humor.